One of the biggest fans of Go-Jek, the motorcycle taxi hailing app that is taking our city by storm, is Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama. Not only does he want to integrate Go-Jek’s private business into the city’s public transportation system, he has even gone so far as to ask the company to create a similar service called Go-Truck.
The Go-Truck service that the governor is imagining would not be a service for private citizens who want to take a truck to their desired destination. Instead, it would be a service for businesses with shipping needs that Ahok believes would increase efficiency and decrease traffic jams.
“I again asked them to make a Go-Truck. Now trucks from outside the island [of Java], from places such as Riau, Jambi and Medan, line up to enter Jakarta so they can wait for cargo going to to their respective home areas,” Ahok said this morning as quoted by Viva.
Ahok said that a Go-Truck app could prevent these trucks from wasting their time lined up around the city causing additional traffic problems. Instead they could receive orders through the theoretical Go-Truck app, vastly improving efficiency for drivers and businesses.
“If they also had Go-Truck, people could use trucks to send finished goods through them, and the truck would not need to wait four days to be able to find cargo,” Ahok said.
